Open Science

A very short intro

Jürgen Schneider

25 September 2024

Lines of reasoning

Open science harmonizes scientific practices with envisioned ideals

  • Public perspective
    Public ownership of the scientific process and results
  • Democratic perspective
    Access to knowledge and research should be equally distributed
  • Infrastructure perspective
    Research needs infrastructure to maximize its potential and support researchers
  • Measurement perspective
    Research needs valid metrics to measure scientific contribution
  • Pragmatic perspective
    Research should be as effective and efficient as possible

(Fecher & Friesike, 2014)

Lines of reasoning

Open science harmonizes scientific practices with envisioned ideals

  • Public perspective
    Public ownership of the scientific process and results
  • Democratic perspective
    Access to knowledge and research should be equally distributed
  • Infrastructure perspective
    Research needs infrastructure to maximize its potential and support researchers
  • Measurement perspective
    Research needs valid metrics to measure scientific contribution
  • Pragmatic perspective
    Research should be as effective and efficient as possible

(Fecher & Friesike, 2014)

current
challenges


new technological
advancements

Example of a challenge

Example of a challenge

(Boudry et al., 2019)

Example of a technological advancement


Imagine: You analyze your data and…

  • someone wants to use the results for a meta-analysis
  • a reviewer wants to check your analyses
  • a team member wants to expand on your analyses


In any case: You’d need to share your analyses (and data).
How would you do it?

One option: Provide a browser-based instance of your R-project.
View example.

References

Boudry, C., Alvarez-Muñoz, P., Arencibia-Jorge, R., Ayena, D., Brouwer, N. J., Chaudhuri, Z., Chawner, B., Epee, E., Erraïs, K., Fotouhi, A., Gharaibeh, A. M., Hassanein, D. H., Herwig-Carl, M. C., Howard, K., Kaimbo Wa Kaimbo, D., Laughrea, P.-A., Lopez, F. A., Machin-Mastromatteo, J. D., Malerbi, F. K., … Mouriaux, F. (2019). Worldwide inequality in access to full text scientific articles: The example of ophthalmology. PeerJ, 7, e7850. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7850
Fecher, B., & Friesike, S. (2014). Open Science: One Term, Five Schools of Thought. In S. Bartling & S. Friesike (Eds.), Opening Science (pp. 17–47). Springer International Publishing.

Credit

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